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Hi, I'm Tony Mantour.

Hi, I'm Tony Mantour. Welcome to Why Not Me the World. Today's guest is Leah Alataton. She's a registered dietician here in the U.S. and the UK. We're going to talk about nutrition, diet, and how it affects us in our daily lives.

Welcome to the show, I appreciate you coming on.

Well, how are you? Thank you so much for this. I'm really excited about it.

Oh, the pleasure is all mine. Thanks for coming on. So if you would, give us a little

information on how you became a dietician. Yeah, so I got into nutrition.

Actually, I found the degree when I was already in college.

I took one of those aptitude tests on what you're good at and this being a dietician

actually popped up as something that would be good for me based on my personality and my interests.

I happened to go to a school that had a really great program for that so a lot of cooking

information like it was a human nutrition and dietetics just

the you know study of of science and food and how how that impacts health and so

that's what I got a degree in in human nutrition and dietetic.

When I think of a dietician, nutritionalist, I think about someone

that's going to help me with my food intake, my calories, everything that I need to lose weight or whatever I'm trying to do but it's way deeper than that right so when you have a new client come your way what's the first step how do you analyze what do you go over how do you determine what needs to be done to help the person that's sitting in front of you?

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